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Buzz News Roundup, 2/20

BuzzSugar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:30:32 -0800

Sandra Bullock will star in football drama-comedy The Blindside, based on the book The Blind Side: Evolution of the Game. - Variety
Project Runway filmed its season six finale today, even though it's unclear if or when season six will air. - AP
In the latest pilot casting news, Jenna Elfman will play a movie critic, Amy Smart will play a future presidential contender, and Jason Clarke will play a federal prosecutor. - The Hollywood Reporter
There's a new museum in Hollis, Queens, devoted to hip-hop - and it serves cheap hamburgers. - AP
Chiwetel Ejiofor has signed on for and Liev Schreiber is in talks to star opposite Angelina Jolie in the spy thriller Salt (also known as Edwin A. Salt). - ComingSoon
Robert De Niro, Tina Fey, and Cameron Diaz are among Jimmy Fallon's first Late Night guests. - NBC
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is in negotiations to topline an adaptation of the DC-Vertigo comic book The Losers. - Variety
The ABC Family show The Middleman will continue in comic book form. - TV Guide

Angelina Jolie to Replace Tom Cruise in Edwin A. Salt

BuzzSugar — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:31:33 -0700

So, perhaps the name will just be Edwina Salt?
In a curious gender switch and swapping of big Hollywood names, the espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt will now feature Angelina Jolie in the starring role, as a replacement for Tom Cruise. Apparently, Jolie "took a liking" to the script.

Jolie: The extremely profitable action star.
Variety has more details on this change of events:

After Universal beefed up Jolie's role in Wanted and then marketed the action film squarely on Jolie's shoulders and watched it gross $132 million domestically, Jolie reestablished, in the wake of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, that she is the rare female who is viable in the action genre, which has been almost the exclusive domain of men.

Probably a smart move.
While I know not everyone loves Jolie, she didn't get quite as many comments as Tom Cruise did from people saying they would boycott any movie she's in. As for Cruise himself, he's rumored to be possibly starring in a comedy titled Food Fight, in which Cruise would play "a snooty New York chef who is forced to cook meals at a school cafeteria."

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Do You Want to See Tom Cruise in More Action Roles?

BuzzSugar — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:31:14 -0700

Today there's news of the spy movie Edwin A. Salt, purportedly starring Tom Cruise, which may get Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games) on board to direct. In the story, Cruise would play "a CIA officer who's accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy. He must elude capture long enough to clear his name."

It's not necessarily going to be an action film, but it does sound similar to something Jack Ryan-ish or Jason Bourne-y, and I personally don't know if I could take Cruise all that seriously as an action star at this point. Then again, maybe he's still got it. Do you want to see Cruise in any more action movies?

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